Bramberry's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 176, July T., 1892, by H. James Bramberry, from decree of O. C. Chester Co., distributing estate of Rachel A. Bramberry, deceased. Exceptions to auditor’s report on exceptions to administrator’s account, and on distribution. The account filed by appellant, husband of decedent, was referred to William T. Fulton, Esq., as auditor, who found the facts as stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 176, July T., 1892, by H. James Bramberry, from decree of O. C. Chester Co., distributing estate of Rachel A. Bramberry, deceased. Exceptions to auditor’s report on exceptions to administrator’s account, and on distribution. The account filed by appellant, husband of decedent, was referred to William T. Fulton, Esq., as auditor, who found the facts as stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The auditor surcharged accountant with one half of a mortgage given jointly to himself and his wife, the decedent, and distributad the same to her heirs. Exceptions to the auditor’s report…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice McCollum,
Assuming that the auditor’s findings or deductions of fact were warranted by the evidence before him, we have a purchase by and a conveyance to husband and wife of seventeen acres of land, a payment by the wife from her separate estate of one half the purchase money and a payment by the husband of the other half of it. The grantees held tho land so purchased and conveyed twenty-five years, when they sold it and took from their vendee his bond and mortgage to secure to them a portion of the purchase money. Ten days after this sale was consummated by a conveyance…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Diver v. DiverSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1867
- Gillan's Executors v. DixonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
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- Trimble v. ReisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1861
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